No. SB 1270
Filed under Agriculture.
Food and Hemp Products; Providing conditions for the manufacture, delivery, hold, offer for sale, distribution, or sale of hemp extract; prohibiting the unpermitted business, street, or festival sale of hemp extract; requiring the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to preapprove advertisements; requiring such businesses and food establishments to keep certain records pertaining to lab results of hemp extract products and the suppliers of such products for a specified amount of time, etc. APPROPRIATION: $2,000,000
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDHemp extract sold in Florida can no longer contain more than 2 milligrams of THC per serving or 20 milligrams per container. Products containing delta-8, delta-10, HHC, THC-O, THCP, THCV, or synthetic cannabinoids no longer qualify as legal hemp extract at all.
Only permitted businesses may sell hemp extract, and street or festival sales without a permit are banned outright. Permitted sellers cannot operate within 500 feet of a school, daycare, gas station, or another hemp retailer.
Advertising must be preapproved by the state, cannot use words like THC or imply health benefits, and cannot be visible from public streets. Hemp and hemp extract can no longer be sold in any smokable form.
Event organizers who allow noncompliant or unpermitted hemp sales at their events face fines. Sellers must keep lab and supplier records for three years, and a third sale to a minor triggers automatic license revocation.
AIHemp extract sold in Florida may not exceed 2 milligrams of THC per serving or 20 milligrams per container, whichever is lower, on top of the existing 0.3% concentration threshold that already applies to hemp.
AIThe definition of hemp extract now excludes any product containing synthetic cannabinoids or the isomers delta-8 THC, delta-10 THC, HHC, THC-O acetate, THCP, or THCV, cutting off their legal pathway under the hemp program's compliance and labeling rules.
AIHemp extract can no longer be sold by an unpermitted business, on the street, or at a festival. Only a business properly permitted under this section may sell it.
AIA business permitted to sell hemp or hemp extract may not operate within 500 feet of a school, daycare facility, gas station, or another permitted hemp retailer.
AIHemp businesses may not advertise visibly from public streets, use imagery attractive to children, or imply unsubstantiated health benefits, and the department must preapprove every advertisement before it runs.
AIHemp or hemp extract sold in Florida may no longer take a smokable form such as flower or pre-rolls, removing that entire category from the legal market.
AISelling hemp extract to a minor is a misdemeanor, and after a third violation within a year the department must revoke every one of the seller's licenses, permits, and registrations.
AIAn organizer who allows an event to feature unpermitted sellers or hemp extract that fails compliance requirements is subject to a state administrative fine for each violation.